Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-25
THEIR PLACES.
The Committees 10 Which tne Various
Members Of tho Texas Delega.
ton Wiil b5 Assigned.
What the Senate Committee is Likely to do
with Regard to he Postal Tele graph
Biu d, fJro Congress,
THEIR ASSIGNMENTS.

THEIR ASSIGNMENTS.
sEaeisl TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. PAT is said tina
Go 1gressmas Crxiu waats to go on the
appropriations committee and that be has
. very good chance Of being plsced there
sayers wants 70 get on the naval affairs
where he did good service last yesr
Lsnham will probably be selected
for the coinage committee for
which his long study of the
silver question especially qualities him.
Stewart VIII be sgsiu chosen on the com.
mittee on rivers and harbors Culberson
azi k1lS will be CHARM respectively of
the Judiciary and the ways and msars
The new members are lot pushing for
place, but will go willingly wherever
Carlisle assigns them.
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH BILL,
special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec 24.-Mr. Sawyer,
chairman of the Senate committee on
postoficeS and posIrOads, asserts that
the subject OF C postal telegraph system
will be taken up very soon after the holt
day recess. He is not prepared TO say
whether or rot such inquiry ag may be
deemed necessary viii be held with
open doors. A great deal Of tnfor-
MT on, he says, has been elected
upon the subject, and as for himself, he
thinks he has heard all the arguments
necessary. The committee Of the lsst
Congress reported back pos
tsI telegraph bill. As five msm
bers Of the present committee
were on the committee that reported it,
the presumption Is that they favor the
system. The oil introduced at the pres
ent session 0y Dir. e imunds is substan-
TALLY the same il Gil its provisions as
thst reported i8VOrSOly In the lest Con
gress. II declares that there shall Re es-
ta5ished, built, operated and carried on
postal telegraph system within the
United States. Il also provides that
: board consisting OF the Secretary Of
STATE, Secretary Of War aud the Post
mssteT-Geneyal shall cause TO be located
and arranged four trunk lines Of postal
telegraph correcting the northeastern,
north western, the western, southwestern
and the southern parts of the United
States with the city Of Washington; also
n appropriate the sum Of 100000 tor
the beginning Of the work
WILL REMAIN IN WASHINGTON.
Special to HE Gaze te.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 81 None of the
Texas members have thus lag left for
their homes, and SO far Gs can be ascer-
tGined none Of them WAL 60 to Ttxss dur
ing the holidays.
BIG WAR SHIPS BEGUN.
WAsEENGTON, Dec u r ports TO the
Navy D,p4rlmsnt from New York and
Norfolk navy yards, where preparations
are making to bgild the great COCO ton
srmoTed wer ships, sre highly satisfac
tory. At New York the keel blocks for
the srmoTed cruiser have oeen placed and
the chip is being laid down. The new
bgfIdiHge are nearly competed and will
be ready 10 receive the machinery and
tools when they ere procured. Adver
lis men;S for supplying the new plant
have already been issued and proposals
will be opened On the I6 of next month
Good progress has also bsen made st
Norfolk, and SIS the schedules for the ad
ditional m6chiae plant required have not
yet been published, there will DE ample
time to fsish the buildings intended for
It's reception before the tools can be par
chased.
POSTMASTER GENERALS BILL.
WAsHINGE0Sg, Dec q - rne I Jstmsst.
er GeneTai has prepared a bill which will
be inirAdUced in the House as soon as
practicable after the T, assembling Of
Congress, materially modifying the pres
emit law relsting 10 permissible writing
or printing on the wrappers Of second,
third and fOQrth-Class mail matter. The
bill provides that the words ''Sample
Copies" OF "Marked Cop es" may oe
printed or wrappers or enclosures Of
second-clasa matter, and that in addition
TO the original print WI ten CORE ctionsof
typogrs phicAl errors may be inClCsed
The bill also prov des that any printing
which is nailAble IS third class matter
may be placed up n the wrappers OF
such matter, provided il Is not IN me no
tuTe of correspondence. and PROVIDED
further that sufficiently large space be
lett for the address. as to fourth class
matter, the bill allows the same adver-
tisements to be printed on the wrappers
as is permitted TO DE iDclosed with mer
chAndise contained therein.
ALMOST Il RIOT.
WASHINGTON, Dc. "a An evening
paper SAYS 50 riot was narrowly
avoided st t2e Norfolk navy yard yester-
day, and something serious might hsve
occurred had not tn armed force been on
the ground. st the close of work on tie
excavation for the new ordnance foundry,
Superintendent Rsghley announced
the names of sixty men
whose services would no lorger
be needed. This announcement, coming
AS il did Just before Christmas, WAS fol
lowed by an exciting scene, participated
in hy the discharged employees. They
shouted out agsinss such treatment, and
threats of violence were made, but the
approach Of an arm boSy OF marine
watch had Deen summoned, succeeded in
bringing the disturbance to an end"
kOHE FOR GENERAL HANCOCK's WIDOW
WARRINGTON, Dc 2+.-rDe geDtl' =
men who have charge OF the fund to buy
and present a residence to the widow OF
the late General W. S Hancock, expect
that the amount necessary will be sub
seribed Immediately. L is stated that
els 900 has been subscribed in various
ERoExts by friends Of the late General,
and the committee hopes to secure the
remainder T, CURED in time TO present
RrE. Hancock with the house that has
Saen selected in Washington during the
holidays.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
special to the Gazette.
WARRINGTON, Dec 24.-Tke following |
Texas pensions were granted 'o.dsy:
AeXcan war, Sarah A, widow OF W1lilsm |
Montgomery, Edgewood; E zabeth a. |
widow of John a. Patton, San Antonio; |
John Hsrkey, Waco; Thomas X. Lilllaro,
James W. Ballard, Bueps
Vista; Original, Alfred Gradney, Gaines |
vile.